The Soapbox

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A friend of my had a bypass surgery: "Doc, now that I've recovered from bypass surgery can I start having sex?" The doctor replied, "Yes, but only with your wife. Your heart's not ready for any excitement!"

Example, the trade name is Tylenol and it's generic name is Acetaminophen.. Aleve is also called Naproxen.

Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.

The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra.

After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin.

Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer.. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one.

Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiff drink'.

Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.

Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research.

This means that by 2020, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'HOK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DDEthel CrudacreI cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - TrollslayerHave a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

Kick her out of the cabinet. And the house as well.First she carries on stealing from the country (and I am sure will claim she "did nothing against the rules") then her staff try to stop publication? Totally unacceptable.

If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.

While not condoning her actions. the papers are looking for anything to try to beat Levinson - in the Daily Mail recently was a full page "advert", supposedly showing the results of a survey amongst the general public that supposedly showed overwhelming support for the newspaper editors' position.

In the article was a list of things that the "free" press had uncovered, such as the MP expenses scandal.

One part said that it was only because we had a free press that the Guardian was able to uncover the illegal actions of the Murdoch papers.

This is like arguing that criminals should be allowed to continue stealing, killing and raping because some of them occasionally turn Queen's Evidence against the others!

However many 'bad' things the papers do, the last thing we want is for the politicians to be controlling them. Before coming to power, Dave promised that there would be no expense fiddling by his team, and if any member of the government was found out they would be dealt with immediately: fail. He promised a referendum on Europe, instead we got a totally unasked for one on AV: fail. He promised Big Society and Little Government: fail. I could go on, but I am really tired of politics and politicians.

I ask myself if there are less jokes in soapbox (or was it the jokebox?) since the voting system has gone forever?Were all those jolly joketellers only here to get profane reputation by votes? Or am I the one and only?